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WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY COURIER
The large t College Journal circulation in the United States.
PUBLISHER BY UNIVERSITY GOURIER COMPANY
Every Friday morning.
J. SULLIVAN, President, | ROSS WEMFLE, Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF.
CLAMA GREENAMTER, A. I. BURNEY,
ALICE HACKINGTON, A. I. BURCH,
TATLOR CUMMINGS, O. POPELLE,
PETER DEDGSON,
CRAB ELLWELL, S. W. SHUCKT
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
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LAWRENCE JOURNAL COMPANY.
OUR ULTIMATUM.
Within the past two weeks there has been organized in our University a new publishing company, on a constitution and basis of a different nature from those of the two companies publishing the two weekly papers under the name of "The Courier." This company incorporating within itself the affairs of the "opposition Courier," all elements recognizing the desirability—for the welfare of the University and all parties concerned—of a compromise of grievances negotiations began early this week for a legitimate adjustment of the affairs of both companies, to bring about a purchase or sale of the one to the other. Concessions on both sides were necessary. Complications which those not directly interested would not or could not comprehend, had to be overcome. The desirability of the publishing of but one paper, was the only goal to which all eyes under the circumstances, could be made to come to a focus.
The first concession was made by the new company in the appointment of a committee, consisting of Frank D. Hutchings, Harry A. Smith and A. L. Wilmoth, to confer with John Sullivan, who was known to have the largely controlling interest in the affairs of this publication, to bring about a purchase of his interests if possible.
"BILL OF SALE.
Nothing was done until Tuesday evening, when representatives from each company, with Mr Chalfant, of the Herald-Tribune, and Charles D. Dean, of the Journal, met in the editorial rooms of Mr. McEwen's, when Mr. Sullivan, in behalf of his campany, signed the following—the which act stops the publication of this paper from this date:
"LAWRENCE, KAS., Feb. 2, '86.
"This Indenture, Witnesseth:
"That for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars ($100,00), to me in hand paid, I hereby sell, transfer and convey to the Courier Publishing Company (incorporated), all my right, title and interest in and to the following property, to wit: The subscription books, advertising contracts and good will of the Weekly University Courier, published by a company, of which I, John Suillivan, am President, and Ross Wemple is Secretary.
"By this sale and transfer, all bills due the said Weekly University Courier — except advertising accounts known as 'contingents' — are to be collected by me; and all debts of the said newspaper, are to be paid by me.
"Witness my hand the day and year above written.
"Witness:
"W. F. CHALFANT.
"J. SULLIVAN."
In pledge of good faith and mutual protection, a document was drawn and signed by H. A. Smith and F. D. Hutchings, in behalf of their company, that Mr. Sullivan was not to be in any way misused in the columns of their publication. Mr. Sullivan pledged himself not to start a new "Courier" within a space of two years.
By this all of our subscribers will receive the new publication unless otherwise ordered. Mr. Sullivan will make all collections due his company, and settle up its affairs generally. Stockholders should present stock for redemption at once.
The new publication under the managing edittorship of Mr. H. A. Smith, of Atchison, will well represent K. S. U. With Mr. Smith's experience in college journalism and the able staff he has for assistants the paper cannot but be a success. We understand the paper issued for the time being at least, will be of five columns.
The final acts of the above will be the paying by Mr. Chalfant into Mr. Sullivan's hands the One Hundred Dollars which was deposited Thursday morning, when Mr. Sullivan, in company with a representative of the new company, will call upon the postmaster, Mr Shannon, and turn over the much-contested matter of "Courrier" mail and assist in straightening up contingent business.
Very thankful to the business men of Lawrence for the generous advertising patronage extended THE COURSE and imploring the kindly good-will in memory, of all to whom is dear the interests of KANNAN STATE UNIVERSITY, for which alone we have endeavoured in our feeble way to injure, we fully imbued with the feeling that if in aught we have erred, it has been “of the head and not the heart.” we rest content.
FINANCIAL
The books of the managers show in expenditure since the beginning of the year of $530. No subscription money of consequence having been received as yet, (it not coming n generally until March) advertising has been their only source of unds. Mr. Sullian has carried all financial affairs individually. While he management have nothing to ay as to their outcome, from the figures nobody will feel they have made their life's fortune out of it.
HOW TO BEGIN TO READ A BOOK.—Always look into your dish and taste it before you begin to eat. As you sit down, examine the titlepage; see who wrote the book—where he lives; do you know anything of the author! Where, and by whom published? Do you know anything of the general character of the books published by this publisher? Recollect what you have heard about this book.
Then read the preface, to see what kind of a bow the author makes, and what he thinks of himself and his work; why he has the oldness to challenge the public to near him. Then turn to the contents; see what are the great divisions of his subject, and thus get a glance of his general plan. Then take a single chapter or section, and see how he has divided and filled that up.
If, now, you wish to taste of the lish before further examination of the contents, then turn to the place where some important point is discussed, and where some valuable thought professes to be expanded or illustrated, and see how it is executed. If, after some few such trials, you should find your author obscure, dull, pedantic, or shallow, you need not longer fish in these waters. It will be hard to catch fish here, and, when caught, they will be too small for use.
But if you find the author valuable, and worth your attention, then go back to the contents. Examine them chapter by chapter; then close the book, and see if you have the plan of the whole work distinctly and fully in your mind. Do not proceed till this is done.
After you have this map all distinctly drawn in the mind, then get the first chapter vividly before you so far as the contents will enable you to do it. Now proceed to read. At the close of each sentence, ask yourself, "Do I understand that? Is it true, important, or to the point? Anything valuable there which I ought to retain?" At the close of each paragraph, ask the same questions. Leave no paragraph till you have the substance of it in your mind.
Proceed in this manner through the chapter; and, at the close of the chapter, look back, and see what the author tried to accomplish by it, and what he really has accomplished. As you proceed, if it be your own, or if the owner will allow
you to do it, mark with your pencil,
in the margin, what. according to
your view, what the character of each
paragraph, or of this or that sentence.
To illustrate what I mean,
I will mention a few marks which
I have found very useful to myself;
these, or anything similar, will answer
the end to be attained.
Perhaps the remark would better be made here, that you can never read to advantage unless you feel well, and the mind and the spirit buoyant. Otherwise, any author will be stupid. "No one will read with much advantage, who is not able, at pleasure, to evacuate his mind, and who brings not to his author an intellect defecated and pure, neither turbid with ware, nor agitated with pleasure."
|| Signifies, that this paragraph contains the main, or one of the main propositions to be proved or illustrated in this chapter; the staple, or one of the staples, on which the chain hangs.
< This sentiment is true, will bear expanding, and will open a field indefinite in extent.
> This, if carried out, would not stand the test of experience, and is therefore incorrect.
? Doubtful as to sentiment.
? ! Doubtful in point of fact.
S Good, and facts will only strengthen the position.
$ \ddagger $ Not inserted in the right place.
O In good taste.
But, facts will not uphold it.
¢ Irrelevant to the subject;
would better have been omitted.
§ Repetition; the author is moving
in a circle.
Q In bad taste.
Such marks may be increased at pleasure. I have found the above sufficient. These need not be adopted, as each one can invent them for himself; but care should be taken always to make the same mark mean the same thing. But will not this method of reading be slow? Yes, very slow, and very valuable. A single book read in this way, will be worth a score run over! It will compel you to think as well as read, to judge, to discriminate, to sift out the wheat from the chaff. It will make thought your own, and will so fix it in your mind, that it will probably be at your command, at any future time. Todd's Manual.—True Educator.
COLLEGE JOURNALISM.—We clip the following from the Hastings Collegian on some of the charms of a College journal editor's life. In K. S. U. we mix in some things to which these are nauseating in suspidl: It is a prevalent idea among our students, that it takes very little trouble to edit a college paper. We beg leave to differ with you. Oulp those who are associated with the paper, know the worry and trouble in getting out each issue. We therefore claim it is the duty of every student to support, as far as he is able, his own college paper. But that is all right. Don't support your paper. Find fault with it. Say the locals are not pithy or sharp enough. Of course you will want to see the paper, just to see for a few moments, as you would like to look up an advertisement. No matter if people do think this is mean. It is because you show more sense (?) than they do. This is not the way of every college paper. Some get along very well for a few months, like a Christian enterprise, and never ask for money. As long as this lasts, every student in the college should send in their names. They should also praise the paper, and tell everyone how much good it is doing for the college. Send it off to your friends. Tell them what a splendid college this paper represents. But as soon as he sends you a "dun," just coolly inform him that you want your paper stopped. Don't give him any reason. The proper thing to do is to tell the students how useless it is for anyone to attempt to edit a college paper. Take the
paper, as long as you can get it on credit, but when the collection agent comes around, don't pay for the time specified, but generously offer to pay him for the two or three issues you have received, and then take your name off of the subscription list. I commend this to your notice.
THE crank is purely an American idea. He is a product of our civilization and our century. He generally succeeds in making himself obnoxious and disgusting. The latest phase of this malady has lately struck Lawrence. We are told that a prominent Y. M. C. A. man, who, by the way, is a student of K. S. U., took it upon himself to call upon a prominent minister of the city, whose life is above reproach, but who does not believe in the antedated myths which some profess to believe, and sought him with all fervor to abandon the errors of his ways and cease his attacks on the orthodox churches. Such things amuse as much as they disgust, and for the honor of the University we sincerely hope this will be the last of it.
THE Courier has always had a vigilant eye to the best interests of K. S. U., and when these conflicted with any tartisan interests the former have never been made subsidiary to the latter, and in the line of this spirit the Courier earnestly exhorts every one, without regard to factional feeling, to attend the contest at Topeka next month. Anyone who numbered himself with jolly crowd that went to Baldwin two years ago, knows that there is an inspiration given by the presence of a large, enthusiastic crowd of personal friends eager for the success of their representative. When only a few personal and intimate friends attent, and the desire of the representative to succeed is confined to personal feeling in the matter there is not the feeling of responsibility resting upon him and his patriotism is vper apt to have a chilling decline. It is human nature, and hence all who have the interests of K. S. U. at heart, and who want to see their Alma Moter come out ahead, should go to the contest full of enthusiasm for our grand old University. Brace up, boys, and be philanthropists. Take somebody else besides yourself. If you can't do this, go alone. But go anyway.
THE STRENGTH OF NUMBERS.
There are 150 newspapers printed in the United States by colored men. Marriage licenses to the number of 10,583 were issued during the year 1885.
A tramp hung himself near Indianapolis, Ind., last week, to escape freezing to death.
London had a curious Xmas card this year, it was made of brown paparap, with "Hard Times" as its motto.
Guards are to be kept at ex-President Garfield's tomb until June 1st.
VIEWS.
It seems the strangest thing to me why the girls never have any views to air. I don't remember to have seen an article in the last three years, devoted to discussion of any measures of reform in which the girls were especially interested. I cannot believe this is because there are no matters pertaining exclusively to the girls. There are plenty enough of them, goodness knows, which touch only the boys, and with which the girls have nothing to do; and it seems to me that if by virtue of nothing else, at least by analogy, there should be something about which nobody should be competent to say anything but the girls. I do not presume to suggest anything interesting them exclusively, but the matter deserves at least passing attention. If the girls are perfectly satisfied with their surroundings and there is nothing which ever goes wrong, the said girls are certainly to be felicitated.
MUSINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.
But I don't believe that the mil lenium has come yet, and until a girl don't find fault with something and Ben Butler goes out of politics, such a state of affairs will never come to pass. Then if you have anything to say, girls, why don't you say it? Why don't you arouse yourselves and "agitate?"
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As I sat and observed the speakers last Friday evening, I could not but be amused at the majority of the gestures made by the speakers. On the whole, they were the most ludicrous absurd pironetts I have seen in some time. They were so utterly meaningless that it is beyond my comprehension to understand how anyone could have the presumption to inflict them upon an intelligent audience. There seemed to be no earthly idea of the purpose of a gesture or the function which it was intended to exercise. There seemed to be a widespread opinion that the prime object which gestures were intended to serve was merely to "think in" and relieve the monotony. My idea of gestures may be wrong, but I look upon a gesture as the true interpreter of thought, it being inscapably alied with expression, and I believe that the aenea of excellence has been attained when the relations between these two are perfect. I hold that a gesture which has no earthly connection with the thought expressed should no more be made than a signboard be put up where there is no road. I believe that the ideal for which speakers should strive is the utmost possible naturalness in the matter of gestures; and I believe that when a speaker makes a gesture as if he were steadily an imaginary basket of clothes on his head and fendly imagines he is picturing the boundless West before the eyes of his entertained auditors, I believe that speaker is off.
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There was a noticeable lack of strictly religious subjects. I was somewhat surprised at this as it is generally the rule. One thing striking, however, was the similarity of subjects. They were one and all a stale and hackneyed renash of sophomoral ethics, having about as much—or rather as little—connection with anything pertaining to this mundane sphere and the breathing vital realities of life as the taking of pills with the Problem of the Three Bodies. When in the name of exhausted patience will we hear the last of the "glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome?" When will we have an end to the long wined explorations into the dusty recesses of the musty past? When shall we cease to be told the school-boy tale of days gone by? When shall we realize that it is best as Longgellow says, to "Let the dead Past bury its Dead" and to act our part in the busy scenes of every day? Why call up the wearied shades of Caesar Alexander and Napolean, when the living present is crammed with lessons as potent as those they teach? Again I say, in the name of wearied patience.
"No more, and you love us."
By the by, the alleged COUNTER seems to be sustaining its boast of being a religious paper, at least as far as "religious" can be defined as pertaining to religion. The schoolboy fight going on in the columns of that priceless repository of wisdom is attracting some degree of attention, at least from those who seem to have had their corps stepped on. I happened to hear an expression of opinion from a prominent Liberal. From the glibness and the virulence with which he abused the unfortunate opponent of his "pet-ism," I could almost imagine him Orthodox. He grew quite zoological and had he not been possessed of a fortunately limited knowledge of natural
He grew quite zoological and had he not been possessed of a fortunately limited knowledge of natural history I tremble for the consequences.
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What a foolish thing it is to do to quarrel about the matter of religion! If there is anything which makes a man appear move pitifully insignificant and more as if you were looking at him through the large end of an opera glass, it is when he stands up and in the ineffable infallibility of a blood relation of the Almighty, calls an expression of honest belief "moral leprosy," and if there is anything which fetters broad and comprehensive Liberalism and drags it down to the level of orthodoxy, it is when it calls honest opposition "illegal and dogmatic." In the name of common right, let us be fair, open and above-board. M.
The Logic of Events.
"Well, well," said Mrs. Catson, putting a side a newspaper and turning to her husband, "a pair of ear rings caused the Burmese war. I never heard of anything so strange."
"Oh," said Mr. Cason, "have heard of stra ugge things."
"Well, I have, and I'll give you an example. One night, in Boston, a young man, meeting an acquaintance, said: 'Come, let's have a drink.' I was never in Boston, but that remark brought about our marriage."
"Nonsense."
"Tell you what I'll do; I promised to get you a new cloak, didn't IP!"
"Yes."
"I understand."
"Well, now I'll bet you the eloak that I can prove my inscription."
"Why, George," exclaimed Mrs. Casson, "you are foolish. Neither of us were ever in Boston. You must be losing your mind."
"Settled what?"
"if I succeed, you don't get the cloak."
"The fact of our marriage."
"How can you be so foolish?"
"Well, one night in Boston about ten years ago, a young man, meeting a friend, asked him to come and have a drink. The friend, a drug clerk did, so he took several drinks and got drunk. That settled it."
"Never mind, I'll explain. The drug clerk got drunk and went to the store. Shortly afterward a servant girl entered and handed him a prescription. In putting it up he used morphine instead of quinine. The girl went away, and delivered the medicine to Mrs. Potter, who took it and died."
“Oh, what’s the use of prolonging this foolishness?”
"We were not acquainted with each other ten years ago."
"Hold on. The death of that woman drew you and me closer together than we ever were before."
"That is very true, but wait. Mr. Potter, the lady's husband, was almost crazed by grief. He could stay in New York no longer, so he came down to Kentucky and after aweil went into business. Don't see any light yet, do you?"
"Oh, hush."
"Walt a minute. He had not been in business long until I met him. He took a fancy to me and gave me employment. After I had been with him several years, he sent me to Arkansas. I had been in this state but a short time until I met him. Summary: The friend had not asked the drug clerk to drink on one certain occasion he would not have got drunk. If he hadn't been drunk he would not have made a mistake in filling the prescription, and had he not made a mistake. Mrs. Potter would not have been killed, and had she not died, Potter would not have left New York, and had he not left that city. I should not have met him, and had I not gone into business with him—"
"Oh, for goodness sake, hush. You are enough to drive anybody cray." She arose and left the room. Her husband mused: "I'll make her another bet. I'll bet she doesn't get that cloak. I have always thought that the logic of events failed to meet with proper appreciation in this country."—dr. kansaw Traveler.
Where the Word Dude Came
From
"When I was a child in Maryland my old negro nurse always called clothes 'dubs'; she had long been a house servant in a family of recent English extraction. At the great Southbridge fair, at Cambridge, which in the first quarter of this century annually attracted chapmen from all parts of the kingdom, the booths devoted to the drapers and tailors were termed 'dudders' boots; that was the duddery, "In that noble ely in which the Rev. Robert Burrows, dean of St. Finbar's cathedral, Cork, replaces the untimely taking off (by judicial suspension and consequent asphyxia) of his friend Lawrence, the stoie, we find a touching allusion to 'duds':
"The night before Larry was stretched,
the next day, that other Wes was still."
And bit in their sacks, too, they fetched,
They sweated their dudes, till they rig it.
They sweated their duds till they ilied "Thus, naturally, we got from the dud (clothes) 'dude'—one whose mind is given to consummate attire.
"*Dude is sometimes written 'puppy'*
— not without eminent authority. Diderot ('Vie do Seneca') finds no difference between a man and a dog but the clothes. 'To pudder' anciently signified to shake, to tremble—as one unsufficiently clad trembles with cold. The word that was first applied to the man who is in need of clothing came at last to be used for the man who applies it. Hence the tailor is a "ducker," and the thing he produces is a "shade." — J. W. P., in New York Orta.
A Man of Nerve.
"Know Jigbee? Of course I do and what's more, I know him to be a man of nerva."
"Nonsense! He's as timid as a mouse.
A man of nerve! Ha-ha!" What in the world put such a notion as that into your head?"
"Well, sir. I heard him contended his own wife the other day, and in public, too, at that."—Chicago Ledger.
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